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GAR AXLE OILBR,

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J. GIBBONS.

} GAR AXLE OILER. No. 355,313. Patented Jan. 4, 1887.

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JOHN GIBRONS, OF WEST TROY, NEW YORK ASSIGNOR TO THE MENEELY HARDWARECOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-AXLE OILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,313, dated January4, 1887.

Application filed April 10, 1886. Serial No. 198,432. (NomodeL) To aZZwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN GIBBONS, of the village of West Troy, countyof Albany, State of New ,York, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Car-Axle Oilers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in car-axle oilers; and myinvention consists (as will be more fully detailed hereinafter inconnection with its illustration, and defined in the claims) in thecombination,with a frame that is composed of two parts which are hingedtogether at one of the adjacent ends of each part, the upper part ofsaid frame containing the material or mechanism which distributeslubricant to the car-axle, of a shaft that is constructed with a cam andhaving its bearings in the lower part of the frame and a crank-arm thatis weighted at its outer end and connected to said shaft, so that whenthe weighted outer end of the said crank-arm is descending by gravity itwill, by its connection with said camshaft, so operate the lat ter toturn, and in turning to engage with the upper frame part to force thelatter and the lubricant-distributing material or mechanism arrangedthereon to contact with the car-axle.

My invention also consists (as will be defined in the claims) in thecombination, with the upper part of a two-part frame that is operated torise by means of a cam-shaft and connected weighted crank-arm on itshinged connection, of two rollers arranged with bearings in a saddlethat is pivoted to the said upper part of the frame, and a ehain-beltarranged to run with its upper stretch on a shaft between said rollers,and with its lower stretch within lubricant contained in the journal--box.

My invention also consists (as will be defined in the claims) in thesubcombination of the parts illustrated and described where they performspecific function.

It is the object and purpose of my invention to use a weighted crank-armto force the lubricantdistributing material or mechanism to contact withthe car-axle, and to so construct the mechanismthat it may be applied toan ordinary journal-box without jacking up the car for its insertion orremoval.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are twoplates of drawings containing six figures illustrating my invention,withthe same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 is a perspective of the mechanism shownas removed from the journal-box and with the oil-dis tributing rollersillustrated as raised up by the camshaft and weighted crank-arm. Fig.

2 is a plan view of the mechanism shown as 6 removed from thejournal-box and with the. oil-distributing rollers shown as down Fig.

3 is a longitudinal central vertical section of the mechanism as appliedto a car-axle j ournal-loox, showing the latter and the ear-axle. Fig. 4is a longitudinal and central section of the oil-distributing rollers,their shaft, and its journals. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the camshaftand weighted crank-arm, shown as detached from the lower frame part.Fig. 6 isa plan view of the upper frame part and saddle.

The several parts of the apparatus thus illustrated are designated byletter-reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter A indicates the car-axle, made with the collar 0, and theletter B indicates the journal-box.

The letter D indicates the bearing, I the journalbox cover, P thepedestal-jaw, and K the journal-bearing key, all the foregoing be ing ofthe usual and well-known kind. I

The letterF indicates the frame, f 2 the upper frame part, and f thelower frame part. The upper frame-part, f is hinged to the lower part atH, so that the upper frame part may swing up from the lower part on itshinged connection.

The'letter S designates a saddle that is pivoted at p to the arm h ofthe upper frame; part, f and this saddle is provided with bearings b ateach side.

The letters R designate two rollers, which have anintermediately-arranged shaft, S the latter being constructed to passthrough the rollers R, so as to subtend them and thereat 5 to producethe journals J, which are adapted to turn in the bearings b of thesaddle S. The shaft S of the rollers is made with radial ribs attachedto the shaft S, and by which the latter 0-, that at each end connectwith radially-arranged ribs r, constructed in the inner opposite facesof the rollers. The function of these ribs upon the shaft is toreceive'lubricant brought up by the chain belt to deliver it'to theradially-arranged ribs on the inner faces of the rollers, from whence,by the action of these ribs upon the rollers as they are rotated, thelubricant is thrown outwardly onto the outer edge of the rollers, whereit is brought in contact with the car-axle.

The letter C designates a chain belt that passes around the shaft S onits upper stretch, with its lower stretch adapted to run in lubricant L,contained in the journal-box. The function of this chain is to conveylubricant to the ribs upon the shaft, and, if desired, instead of thechain belt, any other well-known device performing the same office maybe used for this purpose.

The letter D indicates an oil-deflecting plate, which is made thesubject of another application, which was filed February 15, 1886, andis numbered as Serial No. 191,943. The upper frame part, f makes aT-form connection with its hinged part h.

The letter S designates a shaft having bearings b in the frame partf andthis shaftis constructed with a cam, is, which, as said shaft is turned,engages with the upper frame part f and causes the latter to raise up onits hinged connection H.

The letter a indicates a crank-arm that is is actuated to turn to theextent of half a revolution between the extremes of traverse made by thecrank-arm. The latter is weighted at its outer end, as indicated at W,and when the crank-arm is by gravity drawn down so as to be side by sidewith the lower part of the frame f then the shaft 8?, by means of itscam is,

forces the upper part of the frame toward the car-axle, as shown at Fig.1, and when the crank-arm a is turned over and down away from the frame,then the shaft and cam do not operate on the upper part of the frame,and it rests on the lower part of the frame, as shown at Fig. 2. Thiscrank-arm a is pivoted at p to the shaft S so as to be swung outhorizontally, as indicated by the dotted line d of Fig. 2.

To insert the frame and the lubricating material or mechanism which itholds within the leases the cam engagement of the shaft S with the upperpart of the frame, so that the latter falls down on the lower part, whenthe apparatus is easily drawn out of the journal-box.

While I have shown and described the hinged two -part frame which Iemploy in combination with a cam-shaft and weighted crank-arm as adistinctive means to raise two rollers having an intermediatechain-belt, these same factors could as well be used as I construct andarrange them to raise waste or other lubricant-absorbent andlubricant-distributin g material; and hence I do not limit my inventionof the combined two-part and hinged frame, the cam-shaft, and weightedcrankarm, as I arrange them to operate, to their combination with therollers and chain-belt, with which I illustrate them as connected.

I am well aware that the rollers R, which I illustrate and describe, arean old device. I amalso aware that two rollers have been used inconnection with an intermediately-placed chain belt, and I make no claimto these factors apart from their combination with a pivotal. connectionmade between the saddle in which said rollers have their bearings andthe frame which supports'the saddle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

1. In a car-axle oiler mechanism, the combination,with a frame havingtwo parts that are hinged together at one of the adjacent ends of eachpart with the upper framepart constructed to deliver lubricant, ofashaft having its bearings in the lower frame part and constructed with acam arranged to engage with the upper frame, part when said shaft isrotated, and a weighted crank-arm on the said cam-shaft, said partsbeing constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner asand for the purposes set forth.

2. In a car-axle-oiler mechanism, the combination, with a frame havingtwo parts that are hinged together at one of the adjacent ends of eachpart, the upper part of said frame being arranged to deliver lubricant,of a shaft having its bearings in the lower frame part and constructedwith a camadapted to engage with the upper frame part when said shaft isrotated, and a crank-arm that is weighted at its outer end and pivotallyconnected to said cam-shaft so as to be swung out laterally thereon,said parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially inthemanner as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a car-axle-oiler mechanism, the combination of the frame F, madewith intermediately-hinged upper and lower frame parts, f and f, thesaddle S, pivotally connected to said upper frame part, the shaft S,having its bearings in said lower frame part and constructed with thecam k, and the weighted crank-arm 0, attached to said cam-shaft, saidparts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in themanner as and for the purposes set forth. 1

4. In a car-axle-oiler mechanism, the combination of the saddle S,constructed with bearings b, and having the pivotal connection 10 therollers R R, made with the radial ribs W, the shaft S, made with thelongitudinally- 5 arranged ribs 1", and journals J, and the chain i belt0 said parts being constructed and ar- Witnesses:

ranged to operate substantially in the manner CHARLES S. BRINTNALL,

as and for the purposes set forth. 4 VICTOR M. WITMER.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 6th day of March, 1886, and in thepresence of the two 10 witnesses whose names are hereto written.

JOHN GIBBONS.

